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Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

Directed by Antoine Fuqua

Action | Thriller

Most recently watched by sensoria, JohnPeel, jcdeleon1, PeterMartin, squeegull, noahphex, seanCduregger, schofizzy, danielt

Overview

When the White House (Secret Service Code: “Olympus”) is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning’s inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.

Rated R | Length 120 minutes

Actors

Gerard Butler | Aaron Eckhart | Finley Jacobsen | Dylan McDermott | Rick Yune | Morgan Freeman | Cole Hauser | Radha Mitchell | Angela Bassett | Melissa Leo | Phil Austin | James Ingersoll | Freddy Bosche | Lance Broadway | Sean O'Bryan | Keong Sim | Kevin Moon | Malana Lea | Robert Forster | Sam Medina | Ashley Judd | Mike Snyder | Josiah D. Lee | Edrick Browne | Sean Boyd | Hunter Burke | Aonika Laurent | Jace Jeanes | Sione Ma'umalanga | Tory Kittles | Shane Land | Shanna Forrestall | Ian Casselberry | Dorothy Deavers | Amber Dawn Landrum | Han Soto | Kenneth Wayne Bradley | Bill Stinchcomb | Michelle Celeste Assil | Met Salih | Darrell L. Connerton | Terry Dale Parks | Michael Stallings | Elliott Grey | Hamish Macdonald | Lawrence O'Donnell | Rick Chambers | Scott Walker | Catherine Shreves | Arnold Chon | Lewis Tan | J.J. Perry | Simon Rhee | Ron Yuan | David Joseph Martinez | Andy Cheng | Steve Kim | Danny Le Boyer | Woon Young Park | Ho-Sung Pak | Philip Tan | Stephen Oyoung

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

This might be the most ridiculous movie I’ve seen this year. I like how Fuqua shoots his films but his directing choices are questionable and the results are usually middling (at least of the films I’ve seen). This is another one of those.

Good performances even if they are mostly cartoonish. But buying into each level of absurdity takes some serious conviction. Not that anyone would but it seemed that my packed audience found great delight in how events unfolded. From the first “mistake” onward my eyes were growing weary from rolling back into my head.

That first plot point, breaking protocol to take the S.Korean Prime Minister and his aides into the bunker, is when this film stopped being a film and instead turned into a flag waving propaganda joint. Yes, this is Die Hard in the White House. I’m just surprised they didn’t repurpose “Let the bodies hit the floor” remixed w/the national anthem for the soundtrack.

Was I entertained? I suppose so considering I laughed out loud for 90 minutes of the 120 minute runtime. Did I like this movie? No, not really. But I give it points for taking the entire premise so seriously and thinking that this would be even remotely plausible. And I’d rather see Gerard Butler as an ass-kicking badass than some schlep in a rom-com.

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